Read all of our Ask Ann questions. Q: I see the term “New American cuisine” on menus all the time. I don’t have the faintest idea what that means. Does it really have a definition or is it just a catch-all? A: I am now rethinking the “New American” label in our restaurant listings! One […]
But the question remains: does calling this type of cuisine Asian-American cuisine deepens and contextualizes our understanding of it, or is it just a label, like talking about Asian art or fiction- American – a way to simplify a complex story and make it a marketable cliché? The danger is in fetishizing Asian traits, a […]